Greg Andres is an exceptional prosecutor. Very hard to forge ahead firmly but respectfully when judge is being unreasonable. Ellis complaining that they’re dawdling on uncontested issues - but it’s on Manafort to stipulate that he’s not contesting. politi.co/2vlmt1a

I haven’t seen anything suggesting the latter but I can’t see any possibility he avoids disbarment.

He is being investigated for some of the same crimes Manafort is being tried for. Tax evasion, bank fraud, etc. And a slew of other potential crimes like campaign finance crimes. Should they find evidence of these crimes, then I suspect he will serve time. Federal prosecutions have a 92% conviction rate for a reason. They rarely bring cases to trial unless they pretty well have the person dead to rights.

A very senior official of the Trump campaign, Trump inauguration, and Trump transition team just testified under oath that he and incredibly senior member of the Trump campaign willingly and willful committed crimes.

"By March 2016, Gates said that he was hired to work on a presidential election that Manafort was also working on. Gates did not name Trump.
In this time, Manafort’s company was still not earning any money, according to Gates’ testimony — he said that he was told that by the accountants that they worked with.
Gates said at the time he worked on the presidential campaign, his salary was paid by savings and investments from Manafort. Gates also received income from Map Global Holdings, a PR and movie production company; and ID Watchdog. "

So, you’ve gone from, “not during the Trump campaign” to “not connected to the Trump campaign.”

This is good. Because it shows a slow but accelerating acceptance of the facts.

The dogged insistence that the Manafort charges were all 10 years ago and all previously dismissed by Rosenstein no longer holds water once you’ve accepted this fundamental fact about the current charges against Manafort.

"The special counsel’s questioning of Cohen has focused primarily on all aspects of Trump's dealings with Russia -- including financial and business dealings and the investigation into alleged collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign" twitter.com/ABC/status/104…